A back-up story in Amazing Spider-man #573, released in October 2008, teams satiric pundit Stephen Colbert with a bemused Web-slinger. The Marvel Universe Colbert really is his tv persona, and he causes a fair bit of trouble for the hero. Colbert made an earlier, unlicensed, unnamed appearance, in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man #15. A review of the official appearance appears here.

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